Band of Bards Comics

From the Static

A horror anthology of 17 individual stories exploring the theme of horror from many different angles. Fast-paced and gorey, slow psychological haunts, lighthearted & funny, climate collapse, and more! Among the stories: "The Cauldron," written by CJ Hudson, art by Ile Gonzalez; "Beholden," written by Brent Fisher and illustrated by Mariateresa Susca; "Gravestone Tree," written & illustrated by E.C. Ibes; "She Who Weeps," written by Jarred Luján, illustrated by Marcus Jimenez; "The Unfortunate Consequences of Being a Time Traveler," written by Jimmy Gaspero, art by Sam Owen; and many others.

Final Gamble

Gambling addict Danny Lin, and disgraced MMA fighter Jasmeet Khanna have both fallen on hard times. Owing an enormous amount of money to a loan shark named Mandy, they are offered the chance to save themselves by winning the money they need–in a game of poker against her. Unable to work together, the two men are easily defeated.

THE IGNIS QUADRANT

Montana Bones is a hard-drinking, foul-mouthed gunslinger who has seen more bad days than good. His penchant for helping people somehow always seems to end with him getting his ass kicked on every planet he visits. But he has no idea the mess he's gotten himself into when a local gangster, and a brilliant scientist with amnesia, wander into his local watering hole.

Sentience

Elyse Russell has conjured up a fantastical world and a story that takes us on a journey of gaining sentience, discovering free will, and having to grapple with the dilemmas of what to do with that freedom. It’s a savage existence, but that doesn’t mean we won’t encounter love, we’ll just have to spill a lot of guts to get to the heart.

American Dreams

NYC in 1900 a Jewish immigrant, Jake Gold, works in a sweatshop by day and fights in a gang at night. One night Thomas Edison performs a strange experiment in Central Park, unleashing strange energy across NYC and Jake is suddenly gifted with amazing powers. His path soon crosses with that of luminaries such as Harry Houdini, anarchist Emma Goldman, and crusading journalist Nellie Bly. Standing against the neophyte hero are Edison, JP Morgan, and, worst of all, the occultist leader Aleister Crowley. Can Jake rise to the occasion and protect everyone’s American Dreams?

PROSPECTS

Maxwell Majernik and Jean Franco present: Prospects, a 9 issue mini-series! The town of Ridgeville has been stuck in the middle of a 150 year old battle between two mad scientists, and former colleagues, Edwin Grabowski and Victor Farsimov.

WORLDS AWAY

After crash-landing on an dangerous, archaic, and mystical planet, Serenity and her estranged daughter, Mackenzie, pursue an energy source that may be the key to escaping. However, in the middle of their journey, they're accosted by a deadly sorceress who is also searching for powerful relics. Now the two must work to set aside their conflicts and escape the clutches of their deadly enemy with their lives.

Hush Ronin

Orphaned by the increasingly violent clan wars that have been instigated by the treacherous and mysterious Red Lady, young Minagawa Shoji flees home, lost and alone, into the mountains above his scorched village. There he finds and befriends a teacher; a mysterious old man who teaches him to speak with the Voice of the Mountains. Years later, returning from his voluntary exile, Shoji finds his world more war torn than ever.

Working Class Wizards

Monsters, Wizards, Barbarians, and Heavy Metal set in Chicago of 1976! A heavy metal guitarist in 1970s Chicago hasn't made the big time with his songs of magic, wizards & elves. Let's see how he does with the real thing. High stakes action & adventure set to the tune of classic heavy metal and the best of pulp sci-fi/fantasy.

Bro-D Can't be Broken

In the year 2095, humanity is on the right track to recover from catastrophic climate change and to begin a new era of advancement. People from every background intermingle in clean megacities across the globe, and a commitment to tolerance marks their developing international society. But a group of beings called Deywos, who claim to be Earth's ancient gods, are harassing the human cities, hoping to terrorize humanity back into submission. The only person who can stand in their way is Bro-D, a genetically-modified teen who was altered and trained to save lives in the face of a mass crisis.

A Last Goodbye

In the year 2096, a man and his dog journey through the barren, apocalyptic wasteland that was formerly the United States. On a quest to return home one final time before the earth becomes uninhabitable, this wanderer stumbles across a tribe of mutant cannibals seeking to devour one of the few surviving human communities. Will he trek on and leave the people to their fate, or will he seek redemption for the mistakes of his past?

Tales from the Pandemic

An anthology of 8 stories to mark the third anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic. While the world continues to try to make sense of these events, an extraordinary group of comics creators tell their tales in an attempt to express their feelings and experiences.

Under God

In the Holy United States of America, Samantha Skylin is selected to go on a mission of mercy to the walled off land of Unbelievers. The righteous Almsgiving Day pilgrimage goes awry when Samantha is captured by the Unbelievers she's sworn to save. Outside of the safety of the theocratic bubble for the first time in her life Samantha's beliefs are challenged as she's forced to hear a different point of view.

A Great & Terrible

For fans of Fairy Tail, Alice in Borderland, and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz! Liz is a messy, and bitter 20-something... barely keeping it together in a world that’s just as self-destructive as she is. But fate has its own plans, and as Liz's bad decisions snowball, her reality begins to crack, leading her on a whirlwind adventure to a place she never believed was real... even in her wildest of dreams.